My Warm Up:

• Tune/long tones on open strings (2-3 mins)
• Slow scale (10 mins)
• Shifting Drill (2-3 mins)
• 4-note progressive scale or Shiftless Scales in Thumb Position (5 mins)

Key Elements of a Good Warm Up:

• Tuning/Simple movements
• Scales/Arpeggios
• Shifting/Intonation Work
• Exercise/excerpt practicing both left hand & right hand velocity

Activity/Worksheet:

Use the worksheet for this lesson and the ideas you wrote down for each area in the last lesson to brainstorm a warm up for yourself. You can also use some of the resources from lesson 5 in the last section to come up with ideas.

Come up with 3 different warm ups with all drastically different exercises.

Bonus: Make each warm up a different length of time (i.e. 5 minutes, 15 minutes, and 25 minutes). Doing this prevents you from skipping your warmup because you don’t have enough time.